| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D557676 |
Conference telephone |
December 18, 2007 |
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| 6591240 |
Speech signal modification and concatenation method by gradually changing speech parameters |
July 8, 2003 |
| A speech signal modification and concatenation method is provided, in which spoken messages having different voice characteristics can be concatenated without causing a sense of incompatibility, and it is possible to efficiently perform addition or modification of spoken messages. In the |
| 6139963 |
Polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel and process for producing the same |
October 31, 2000 |
| A polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel has a surface layer comprising a net-like structure formed by entanglement of fiber-like articles having a diameter of 0.1 to 50 .mu.m. This gel has a large surface area and high capability of adhering microorganisms and permeating liquid, thereby exhibiting |
| 6081781 |
Method and apparatus for speech synthesis and program recorded medium |
June 27, 2000 |
| Data in the same range of the fundamental frequency F.sub.0 as speech segments are used as learning data to prepare a reference codebook CB.sub.M for a spectrum envelope. The same learning data for a higher range than F.sub.0 and the same learning data for a lower range are subject t |
| 6007712 |
Waste water treatment apparatus |
December 28, 1999 |
| A waste water treatment apparatus which is compact, and excellent in durability, has a high treatment performance and can stably operate for a long time is provided. In a waste water treatment apparatus at least comprising a waste water treatment tank in which a carrier particle immo |
| 6004687 |
Cylindrical alkaline battery |
December 21, 1999 |
| A cylindrical cell is disclosed which is so constructed that an insulating ring is seated on the outside of the sealed part of the opening part of a cell case, the terminal face of a negative electrode plate is depressed below the outer face of a facing label covering the insulating ring |
| 5940797 |
Speech synthesis method utilizing auxiliary information, medium recorded thereon the method and |
August 17, 1999 |
| In a method and apparatus which use actual speech as auxiliary information and synthesize speech by speech synthesis by rule, prosodic information for a phoneme sequence of each word of a word sequence obtained by an analysis of an input text is set by referring to a word dictionary, and |
| 5725966 |
Heat sensitive jacket label for battery and battery with the same |
March 10, 1998 |
| A heat sensitive jacket label for a battery is disclosed. It comprises a base made of a heat-shrinking film, a metal layer provided on a back surface of the base, a heat-resistant insulating layer provided on the metal layer, and a heat sensitive adhesive on the insulating layer. The |
| 5581652 |
Reconstruction of wideband speech from narrowband speech using codebooks |
December 3, 1996 |
| A wideband speech signal (8 kHz, for example) of high quantity is reconstructed from a narrowband speech signal (300 Hz to 3.4 kHz). The input narrowband speech signal is LPC-analyzed to obtain spectrum information parameters, and the parameters are vector-quantized using a narrowban |
| 5307442 |
Method and apparatus for speaker individuality conversion |
April 26, 1994 |
| Input speech of a reference speaker, who wants to convert his/her voice quality, and speech of a target speaker are converted into a digital signal by an analog to digital (A/D) converter. The digital signal is then subjected to speech analysis by a linear predictive coding (LPC) analyze |
| 5296569 |
Complex microspheres, method of making same, and thermoplastic films containing same |
March 22, 1994 |
| Complex microspheres consist of polysiloxane and vinyl polymers which are unistructurally mixed together and substantially free of covalent bonds therebetween. Polysiloxane and vinyl polymer are contained at ratio of 97/3.about.30/70 by weight, the average diameter of the complex mic |
